Category: Azure

When you create an application many times it works for you on your machine, but not when you deploy it elsewhere. This can happen on Azure websites or cloud services. But it isn’t the platforms fault. It would be the platforms fault if it didn’t

Windows Azure and some other cloud table storage systems do not support auto-increment identity columns as Microsoft Sql Server does. Azure groups records by a dual key, the partition key and the row key. The partition key is a group of related records that should

Microsoft Azure has a good quality SDK for interfacing with the Azure table storage REST HTTP interface. In the early days of Azure table storage you had to build your own query urls and process raw http rest style responses. Now with the Azure SDK

There are a few scenarios where you may want to generate your own unique sequence identifiers. You may be using a database or big data store that does not offer an auto-increment sequence feature. Or maybe you just want a short memorable alpha numeric order

It is a fairly common task to setup a site in Windows Azure websites and need to have a custom domain pointed at that site. Windows Azure lets you setup a custom domain with a shared or reserved instance or a virtual machine. You cannot